Improvement in barrelheads



REU-BENQeDE'BAnE,.or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

. Y i Letters Patent No.v'107,885, dated Getober 4, 1870.

`IMPRQVETMENT IN BARREL-HEADS.

To all whom 'it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, REVUBE'N B. DE BARN, of the ci ty of' Philadelphia` und Stute ofPennsyvanla., have in `V-vented new and useful Im provenients in Barrel-Heads;

f and I do hereby dechire .the following to be on exact description thereof',referencebeing had to the accompanying drztwin g and Lto the letters of 4 reference marked thereon,` nmking :tj pznt of this specification, in which-v i .I Tigure l represents a. crossfse'ction of the head, as fastened into the barrel;

Figure 2 is n top ViewV ofthe head.

Figure 3, n cross-sectionvof the sanne. y Figure 4, :n1 under-sideview ofthe head.

4The nature of myinvelition consists in the borrelhend, `herein described, composed .of the sections O C,

and E E,.bolt or lock H, and plug M,- `ull constructed mid combined in the manner herein specified.

fk-represents on ordinary 'bnrreh with its groove B on the inside, to .support the heed-pieces.

C G `are the side pieces of thehend, vwith square grooves D D` nt their sides, to support thetlcnges `or Ugrooved Vedges ofthe center pieces E E.

" l l The-Schedule refened to in these Letters Patent and making part o the same There is n. round aperture, G, in one of 'the center pieces E, through which the-finger is inserted to move theholt H (on. the under side) backward or forward, thebolt operating in a. dovet-ail recess in the under side of the pieces E E,ond the pieces E E interlock together, (at the center,) with two extension ends, J

J., When the center pieces E E are fitted to their place, the bolt H- is drawn to its place-by the finger being pressed against the notch L until the aperture is closed by the bolt, when the stopper M is inserted,

to keep the bolt to itsplece, and the barrel is then tightly closed to hold either our or liquids.

, What I claim as my invention, Aand vdesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The barrel-head herein described, composed of the sections CUnnd E E, bolt or lock H, and plug M, all

'constructed and combined in the manner specified.

R. B. :DE-BARE.'

Witnesses J. FRANKLIN BEIGART, EDM. F. BRnWN. 

